Leibnitzian
Americanadjective
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All this is doled out as solemnly as a lantern-slide lecture in German philosophy, with the actors uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
Along with Sir John Herschel and George Peacock he laboured to raise the standard of mathematical instruction in England, and especially endeavoured to supersede the Newtonian by the Leibnitzian notation in the infinitesimal calculus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
"And you, my friend," he said to a Leibnitzian who was there, "what is your soul?"
From Romans — Volume 3: Micromegas by Voltaire
Most people have heard of the 'Harmonie Pré-établie' of Leibnitz; it is borrowed without acknowledgment from Spinoza, and adapted to the Leibnitzian philosophy.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony
In the Leibnitzian theodicy the least satisfactory part is the justification of moral evil.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
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